Saturday

Rice Kheer

This is a popular dish ampngst Jains of Karnataka and Maharashtra

Ingredients:

1/4th cup long grain rice (washed and drained)
4-5 cups milk
2-3 cardamom seeds (crushed)
2 tbsp almonds (blanched silvered)
A pinch of saffron threads, soaked in a little hot milk
1 tbsp skinned pistachio nuts (chopped)1 tbsp raisins (optional)
2-3 tbsp sugar or as desired

How to make kheer:

Put the rice, milk and cardamom in a pan, bring to boil and simmer gently until the rice is soft and the grains are starting to break up.

Add almonds, pistachio, saffron and raisins and simmer for 3-4 minutes.
Add the sugar and stir until completely dissolved.

Remove the rice kheer from heat and serve either warm or chilled.

1 comment:

  1. hi......... not only the recipes which are plue perfect, but also the little words like kheer etc that you’ve used have brought back a flood of happy memories.I am So inspired to replicate my mom’s kitchen, thanks to you! Do you have kathiawari recipes as well?? Thanks ....

    ReplyDelete